LEADER 04557oam 22006854a 450 001 9910790877203321 005 20221007235128.0 010 $a1-57506-863-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781575068633 035 $a(CKB)2550000001151058 035 $a(EBL)3155686 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001037115 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11575449 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001037115 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11043375 035 $a(PQKB)11598775 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3155686 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10784046 035 $a(OCoLC)922991757 035 $a(DE-B1597)584335 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781575068633 035 $a(OCoLC)1273306611 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_79468 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3155686 035 $a(OCoLC)1253313199 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001151058 100 $a20131212d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aInterpreting Ecclesiastes: Readers Old and New$eReaders Old and New /$fKatharine J. Dell 210 1$aWinona Lake, Indiana :$cEisenbrauns,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2013. 215 $a1 online resource (117 p.) 225 0 $aCritical studies in the Hebrew Bible ;$vnumber 3 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-57506-281-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTable of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Ancient Interpretations -- Chapter 1: Ecclesiastes as Wisdom: Consulting Early Interpreters -- Chapter 2: Vanity, Human Beings, and the Created World: The Dualistic Method as Applied to Ecclesiastes -- Part 2: Modern Interpretations -- Chapter 3: The Cycle of Life in Ecclesiastes: An Ecological Reading -- Chapter 4: Animal Theology and the Direction of the ??? -- Chapter 5: A Liberationist or Postcolonial Reading?: Ecclesiastes as a Resistant Text -- Chapter 6: Reject or Retrieve? :Feminist Readings of Ecclesiastes 7:23 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Ancient Interpreters -- Modern Interpreters -- Index of Authors -- Index of Scripture. 330 $aReaders of texts come from all generations, from different contexts and with different agendas. This book gives a sample of what both ancient and contemporary readers have brought to the book of Ecclesiastes in the quest for illumination of the text and for their own enlightenment, often furnishing their own agenda. Debates over meaning are formed, shaped, and illuminated by the interpreters themselves. Part One looks at ancient interpreters and at their methods of approaching the text. Jewish and Christian interpreters alike sought to find meaning amongst some of the key puzzles of the book: why does the author call himself 'the son of David' and appear to be Solomon when his pen name also seems to be Qoheleth? Why the contradictions in content? How did such an unorthodox book come to be canonized? How did the dualistic contemptus mundi interpretation of the vanity theme perpetuated by Jerome and others come to hold the field for so long? And how did Luther and the reformers seek to rectify that approach? These questions and others are addressed in this book, looking through the lens of past interpretation. Part Two acknowledges our increasing self-awareness of the importance of method in approaching biblical texts and turns to a sample of modern interpretations from familiar reading groups such as the ecologist, the animal theologian, the liberationist, the post-colonialist, and the feminist. It will be seen that different modern approaches often enlighten the interpretation of specific verses within Ecclesiastes and hence that no one method is a wholesale 'solution' to interpretive concerns. -- Publisher. 410 0$aCritical studies in the Hebrew Bible ;$vno. 3. 606 $aHermeneutik$2gnd 606 $aExegese$2gnd 606 $aRELIGION$xBiblical Studies$xWisdom Literature$2bisacsh 606 $aRELIGION$xBiblical Studies$xOld Testament$2bisacsh 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 615 7$aHermeneutik 615 7$aExegese 615 7$aRELIGION$xBiblical Studies$xWisdom Literature. 615 7$aRELIGION$xBiblical Studies$xOld Testament. 676 $a223.806 700 $aDell$b Katharine J$g(Katharine Julia),$f1961-$01475642 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790877203321 996 $aInterpreting Ecclesiastes: Readers Old and New$93689891 997 $aUNINA